As a leader are you monitoring and ensuring the process that brings new ideas to the final stage of launching? Or is your company swimming in plenty of concepts and ideas but failing to produce?
Read More
Strong leaders have long known that leading doesn't start with actions, or even thoughts. Instead, it starts with what leaders believe. Covey calls these beliefs our moral compass. Peter Senge calls them mental models. They are the lens through which we view the world. They influence how we perceive and respond to all that happens.
These beliefs are not corporate values we aspire to, but instead the principles that determine what we think, say, and do. I often think of Enron, and their corporate values of communication, respect, integrity, and excellence. For them and many others, their values represent things that they were have the most difficult time doing.
So what do great leaders believe? What mental models guide them? Here are five principles I consistently see great leaders believe in and act on.
Read More